Foot-strap for drawers.



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M. D. WlLCOX, FOOT STRAP FOR DRAWEBS.

(Application filed Feb. 27, 1902.

(No Model.)

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UNIT D STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

MARGARET D..WILOOX, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA.

FOOT-STRAP FOR DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 7 dated-"June 1902' i Application. filed February 27, 1902. Serial No- 95,990. (No model.)

To wZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET D. W1LooX, a citizen of the'United States,'residingat Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Foot-Straps for Drawers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a foot-strap for drawers to be used by men, boys, and women.

In practice where drawers with knit-rib elastic cuffs are worn the cuff is liable to be rolled up by the drawing .on of a stocking. This produces a bulge at the instep orv ankle of the wearer that is disagreeable.

The object of my invention is to provide a strap device which may be applied to the drawers-cuff and extend under the foot, and thereby hold down the lower end of the drawers when the stocking is pulled on.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the representationof a foot and leg with a drawers-leg on it and the improved strap in proper position for holding down the drawers-leg. Fig. 2 shows the same indicated by broken lines and a stocking over it. Fig. 3 shows the foot-strap on a larger scale with the ends approximately in position as when in use.

A flexible strap A, of suitable material, has at one end a safety-pin b, permanently se- The'pinb proper is free to be engagedwith the lower end dot the drawers (1. Ahook c has branched ends 6, like the prongs of a letter Y, which are connected to the frame 0 of the safetypin. This hook has positionalongside orin contact with one surface of the strap, 'as

the drawers-leg is securely held down.

tached to the drawers-cuff (or lower end'of the drawers-leg) by means of the pin b. The

point of attachment is atthe front just over the instep of the foot. The strap is then placed down one side of the foot, under the foot, and

up the other side, and the end of the strap having the holes or eyelets f is engaged with the hook 6. made fast to the drawers. By this arrangement the strap forms a loop for the foot anIdt willnow be seen that a. stocking g may be pulled on the foot, over the strap, and upward on the leg without causing the cuff of the drawers to be rolled up, as commonly done heretofore.

Only "one end of the strap is v A The strap is concealed by the stocking and I is not objectionable to the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters frame of said pin, there being provided holes 7 in the other end of said strap to receive said hook, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. I

MARGARET 1). WILCOX.

Witnesses:

FANNY D. Goonn, J. H. DOWNING. 

